The Tsar Bomb
The Tsar Bomb is the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Dropped on an island about 400km from the Russian mainland. It detonated with the force of 57 megatons. The height of the mushroom cloud ascended to about 40 miles above the earth's surface. What probably is not known is that nuclear bombs/warheads are not generally designed to strike the earth's surface. Designers much rather have the device explode while it is still airborne. Like, the Hiroshima bomb never actually struck ground in Japan. It exploded on the way down while still in the sky. Thus maximizing the kill radius. The Tsar bomb exploded while it was 4000 km from the ground. The fireball never even touched the surface of the earth. The fireball was five miles wide and ascended to about 7 miles above the earth's surface. Russian scientists thought that it would eventually hit the ground but that never happened. The shock wave was too powerful and sent the fireball upwards. Another interesting note; the pilot and his crew were not expected to survive the blast. They deployed the bomb and flew away as fast as they could. But they were only given a 50% chance of survival.
So if the blast hit downtown Boston, pretty much everything within a three mile radius is simply wasteland. Within a ten mile radius, the only things standing are the most secure concrete/steel buildings. And people up to 40 miles away could experience third-degree burns. You can check all of this on a website called nukemap. Almost 2 million people would be dead. About half of them would die thankfully die instantly. I have been playing around with different scenarios for a good while.
I just wanted to explain this stuff to some common sense folk in the forum. Because a lot of posters don't seem to understand why we have things like the United Nations, the European Union, multi-lateral organizations for economics and diplomacy. These there were not born in a vacuum. There is no "liberal" conspiracy behind them. We started down this path to prevent the end of humanity. And all of these conspiracy mongers do not provide any alternatives to how arbitrate issues between different nations.
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